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Originally Posted by Macindoc
Monahan is currently on LTIR, and if they sign someone to replace him, precedents have been set in the NHL in the past few years in which a player simply waits on LTIR until there is cap space to fit them onto the roster, or until the playoffs.
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Every team has to be cap-compliant on the first day of the season without LTIR, and only then can assign players to LTIR. Every year, teams go through extraordinary gyrations, papering players down to the AHL, announcing reduced opening-day rosters, placing their eligible players on LTIR and then calling the papered players back up again.